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Old May 24th, 2006, 07:43 PM posted to news.groups,rec.outdoors.fishing.bass,rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Martin X. Moleski, SJ
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 18:14:06 GMT, (David
Bostwick) wrote in :

By the way, "SJ"? Does that mean what any literate person would presumably
assume it does?

Depends on your definition of literate. IIRC, it stands for Society of
Jesuits (although it's probably really Latin, eh, Martin?).

"SJ" is English--"Society of Jesus.". Latin had no letter "J,"
so it would be "Societas Iesu" (SI). Italian:
La Compagnia di Gesł. And so on ...

"Jesuit" is derived from the Latin "Iesu ita," which
means "like Jesus."

A lot of folks think that we're not too Jesus-like. Some
went to their Bibles and found the Jebusites, a tribe
inimical to the house of Israel, and used that word
instead.

And that's why you might also hear us called "Jebs"
or "Jebbies."

[To the proponent and folks interested in fishing:
sorry for the thread drift.]

Marty